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Re: String Processing Question [message #42859 is a reply to message #42850]

Thu, 03 March 2005 14:14

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Sobwom writes:

> Try StrSplit():
> animal = 'Coyote'
> myString = 'My favorite animal is {1}.'
> newString = StrJoin(StrSplit(myString, '\{1\}', /Regex, /Extract, $
> /Preserve_Null), animal)

Now *that's* what I'm talkin' about! :-)

That whole "regular expression" business always makes
my eyes glaze over. I think because everyone who explains
it relies on the same UNIX man page. :-(

Now I see how powerful it is. Really nice. My code
is back to being elegant again! Thanks a lot.

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Re: String Processing Question By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 March 2005 16:15
		Re: String Processing Question By: Benjamin Hornberger on Thu, 03 March 2005 16:07
		Re: String Processing Question By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 March 2005 14:14
		Re: String Processing Question By: Sobwom on Thu, 03 March 2005 13:47
		Re: String Processing Question By: Norbert Hahn on Fri, 04 March 2005 08:32
		Re: String Processing Question By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 03 March 2005 17:58

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